Learn how to make crepe paper flowers in 5 minutes flat so easy and so pretty!
You dont need any crafting experience, and they are perfect forbirthday partiesor decor.
Skills Required: None.Even a beginner can make these flowers.
I recommend them for older children as well.
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Today Im going to show you how to make paperflowersfrom crepe paper, AKA streamers, in 5 minutes.
Yes, thats all the time it takes to make one flower.
Actually, they took me 3 1/2 minutes each but whos counting .
If you likepaper crafts, this is going to be fun for you.
Once you master the technique it will be interesting to see what else you use to make these!
Use leftover streamers from parties and youve got yourself a killer upcycled project to boot!
For our basic flowers, I cut 36 of crepe paper per flower.
For larger flowers cut longer lengths of paper.
Older kids can also do this project.
I recommend starting them out with a 12- 24 piece of crepe paper.
Step One:Trim your crepe paper into one long piece as noted above.
Step Three:Cut one edge of the paper with a zig zag edge.
Step Four:Cut a roughly 6 length of floral wire.
Take one bead and thread it through the wire leaving a 1 length on one side of the bead.
This will be you stem and flower center.
Step Six:Take your stemand add a dollop of glue around the twisted base.
Then begin wrapping it with the trimmed crepe paper.
Fold and pinch, fold and pinch, got it?
Add glue periodically around the base as you pinch it to secure the flower together.
Gently pull on the stem to tighten the center of the flower around the bead.
Continue wrapping the tape all the way down the floral wire to form a meaty stem.
In thirty minutes, I bet you’ve got the option to make 6 more.
TIPS
If you want to make larger flowers cut longer lengths of crepe paper.
The caveat is that crepe paper is not very wide.
Your flowers will never be big and bushy, but rather sweet and delicate.
If you want big, gigantic paper flowers, try making them out of tissue paper.
This will help the floral tape stay in place.
Crepe paper flowers are delicate!
They can be re-fluffed after a good crushing but will never quite look as pretty.
Treat the finished flowers with care and by all means dont hand them to your toddler, ha!
You will need to securely glue to the base of the flower if you try this method.
Get creative with the cutting!
There are endless variations for the edges.
Here are a few we tried includingleaveswhich can be tucked under flowers for greenery.
Now that youve made crepe paper flowers what can you do with them?
I love when a tutorial is super quick and yields lovely results.
I hope you enjoyed learning how to make paper flowers in 5 minutes flat!
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